How to Determine Screen Height and Width

I've created a new application on flutter, and I've had problems with the screen sizes when switching between different devices.

I created the application using the Pixel 2XL screen size, and because I've had containers with a child of ListView it's asked me to include a height and width for the container.

So when I switch the device to a new device the container is too long and throws an error.

How can I go about making it so the application is optimized for all screens?


You can use:

  • double width = MediaQuery.of(context).size.width;
  • double height = MediaQuery.of(context).size.height;

To get height just of SafeArea (for iOS 11 and above):

  • var padding = MediaQuery.of(context).padding;
  • double newheight = height - padding.top - padding.bottom;

Getting width is easy but height can be tricky, following are the ways to deal with height

// Full screen width and height
double width = MediaQuery.of(context).size.width;
double height = MediaQuery.of(context).size.height;

// Height (without SafeArea)
var padding = MediaQuery.of(context).viewPadding;
double height1 = height - padding.top - padding.bottom;

// Height (without status bar)
double height2 = height - padding.top;

// Height (without status and toolbar)
double height3 = height - padding.top - kToolbarHeight;

The below code doesn't return the correct screen size sometimes:

MediaQuery.of(context).size

I tested on SAMSUNG SM-T580, which returns {width: 685.7, height: 1097.1} instead of the real resolution 1920x1080.

Please use:

import 'dart:ui';

window.physicalSize;